Court sends class action back to drawing board
In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a class action against Walmart that included over a million employees who claimed sex discrimination. The court said the employees didn’t have enough in common to band together in one lawsuit (Walmart v. Dukes). Now federal courts are doing the same with much smaller class-action lawsuits—good news for employers.
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